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This photographic concept book proposes a reading of Florence as a living laboratory of the production, stratification and transformation of knowledge, the sciences and art. It offers a visual and textual itinerary through the city in twenty-three chapters, from A to W, and features a number of Florentine museums, archives and collections: from the Florence State Archives to the Central Herbarium, from the Opificio delle Pietre Dure to the Galileo Museum, from La Specola to the Historical Archives of the European Union.

It looks at the legacies of Anna Maria Luisa de Medici and of the Luba people, at Machiavelli, Dante and the David of Michelangelo, at a dried plant from South Yemen, the nineteenth century’s urban development, the destructions of WW2, the flood, and a fish.

In an almost filmic sequence, careful and precise photographs by artist Armin Linke enter into dialogue with historical documentary photographs as well as with texts by Hannah Baader and Costanza Caraffa. This itinerary is linked to a broader discourse on archiving and the activation of knowledge, as well as art and the making of cultural heritage. It is also concerned with photography and imaging technologies, from cameras to microscopes and telescopes, as well as processes of medialization.

An introductory essay and an overview of Florence’s geological formation are completing the publication.